A seminar is set to be hosted online for Greek language teachers ahead of this year’s oral exams for the Certificate of Attainment in Greek, in what aims to be an insightful look into effective strategies for preparing students.
The 1.5 hr free seminar will be held on Tuesday, April 2 at 7pm (Sydney time)/ 11am (Athens time) and is being organised by the Modern Greek Studies Program of Macquarie University and the Sydney Institute for Community Languages Education (SICLE), University of Sydney.
The seminar titled ‘Strategies for understanding and producing oral language in the teaching of Greek as a heritage and/or a foreign language: Development practices and teaching methods’ will focus on approaches to spread this knowledge to students.
The workshop is being organised particularly with the aim of exploring strategies to best prepare students for the Certificate of Attainment in Greek exams later this year.
Oral language proficiency is obviously a crucial skill in learning a language, though it is worth noting that there comes an immense challenge in passing it on in foreign language environments.
This derives from the fact that foreign languages are not inherently practised in and outside of the classroom which makes it increasingly challenging to effectively develop one’s skill in a different language, a problem this seminar seeks to address.
The presenter, Dr Konstantina Iliopoulou, will be zooming in from Greece to contribute her perspective on effective practices and pedagogical recommendations for teaching oral language.
Dr Iliopoulou, who has a BA in Greek Philology, MA in Applied Linguistics, Ph.D. in Assessing L2 Writing and Postdoc in alternative assessment in Language classroom, has extensive experience in teaching Greek.
She currently works as Laboratory Teaching Staff at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Philosophy and Education, Department of Pedagogy.
In addition to this, she also serves as a part time lecturer at the University of Nicosia on MA programs concerning Teaching Greek as an L2 as well as at the Hellenic Open University on a relevant MA program under the subject “Language, Education and Society”.
Dr Iliopoulou, who is also an external associate of the Greek Language Centre, and scientific member of the Research Centre “Temenus” of the University of Western Macedonia, Greece, is hoping her knowledge and experience in this area will prove quite useful for Greek language teachers.
Registrations for the workshop are open until Monday April 1 at 4pm (Sydney time) and 8pm (Athens time).
Register via forms.office.com/r/0VN0fxJ0N7
The zoom link for the workshop is provided upon submission of your registration form.
*NESA accredited teachers can count completion of this workshop as NESA Elective PD (1.5hrs) to be added to their eTAMS record themselves.
